MSNBC Host Hangs Gun Control Call on Newtown Massacre
It's customary to wait for the bodies to cool before exploiting them for political gain
Hours after what appears to have been a massacre at a local elementary school in Connecticut, and with the number of victims or their identities yet known, MSNBC host Alex Wagner opined that this shooting must yield policy makers in Washington some "political capital" to introduce reform American gun ownership laws.
"It is, hopefully – we say this every, single time we cover one of these things – a line in the sand," Wagner said. "There has got to be some kind of measurable change, some kind of reaction."
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right, because only one more law will stop someone willing to ignore existing laws. Is being hyper stupid required for work at MSNBC or does it just help?
"Knife attack at Chinese school wounds 22 children"
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/.....ina-kni...
"China was hit by a spate of knife and cleaver attacks that targeted school children in 2010.
A number of measures were introduced at the time, including increased security at schools across the country and a regulation requiring people to register with their national ID cards when buying large knives."